If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you may have seen one or two (or seventeen) pictures of my dog or family’s dogs. All of us together have 5 dogs. There are more dogs than people. We have 4 French Bulldogs and 1 Doberman. It’s a bit of a long story on how and why we got 3 Frenchies from the same litter, but the point is, we’ve got 3 pups turning ONE today! Or should I say seven, knowing dog years? So, I made them these Healthy Homemade Peanut Butter Pumpkin Dog Treats to celebrate.

Healthy Homemade Peanut Butter Pumpkin Dog Treats

Ingredients:

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line 3 cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Add all of the ingredients to a stand mixer bowl fitted with a beater attachment. Mix on medium speed. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix again. Mixture should be thick and fudgy, not sticky, like cookie dough.

Roll the dough in between 2 sheets of parchment paper until it’s ¼” thick. Use a mini bone cookie cutter to punch out bone shapes. Reroll the dough and punch out more cookies, until the dough is used up.

Bake for 15 minutes, or until firm and dry. Let cool completely, then store in a tightly sealed container in the fridge for up to 1 week.

Note: I revamped this recipe and added some more pictures to the post. I originally posted this recipe for Healthy Homemade Peanut Butter Pumpkin Dog Treats on April 6th 2013 for our first dog’s 1st birthday (Jax was our only dog at the time). It’s such a coincidence, Jax’s birthday is exactly my half birthday… ah, we were meant to be 🙂

Here are some pics from Jax’s 1st birthday:

We got him all dressed up and I baked him his own peanut butter cake suitable for his dietary needs (natural PB, brown rice flour, cinnamon, egg, applesauce, water).

Waiting patiently for us humans to snap our photos so he can shove his face into that cake.

We sang our Happy Birthday song like Marilyn Monroe and he dived head first into that cake.

Food coma ensued.

Because a personal birthday cake only lasts one meal, let’s make our pups some treats that’ll last a few days to a week. I made this super easy, super fun, 4-ingredient recipe using a mini dog bone cookie cutter. I love the healthy and natural ingredients, but most importantly, my dogs go crazy for these treats and are willing to do whatever trick I ask them to do (which is rare, since they’re so stubborn)!

Sit. Stay.

Good boy!

Jax will do anything for these Healthy Homemade Peanut Butter Pumpkin Dog Treats. Sometimes I’ll just look over to find him standing like in the picture above… like, for 5 minutes straight. He’s adorable and makes my heart melt 🙂

Now go make these treats for your pup (or cat, or bird, or you… I ate these, and they were strangely addicting…)

I can’t believe how much I’ve bonded with Cherry. I’ve only known her for eight months, yet I love her SO so much. I ADORE her! Frenchies don’t live as long as some other dogs due to their numerous health issues, so I try to make her life as enjoyable and happy and exciting as possible. She’s had such a positive impact on my life, I know I want to get her tattooed on me. I’m thinking on my upper arm, right below the roses on my shoulder/upper arm. But, of course, that’s a huge decision and I need to think about it for at least a year before I go ahead and do it.

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With love and good eats,

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– Jess

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I love it! I can’t wait to start making dog treats for Shazam. We’re still easing him into his new food, and have tried a few different foods to test them out on his digestive system (quinoa and pumpkin!). So far so good. I’m sure I’ll be baking treats for him by the summer! 🙂

These look great! I’ve been wanting to make homemade peanut butter treats for my little puppy and have been looking at lots of different recipes. I like that this one also has pumpkin and doesn’t have any wheat. Can you tell me what the texture of these is like? Or they soft at all or are they hard and dry? Thank you!

Instead of the pumkin purée, I use two 4.25oz Beech Nut organic apple and pumkin baby food(they’re in glass) and add an additional 1/4 cup of oat flour. My dog eats these things up like…..wait no, she doesn’t eat them, she inhales these things!! AWESOME recipe!!! Thank you so much 😀

Kevin-
Hmmm… I haven’t tried that but it might work! You’ll need to reconstitute it with water (there should be directions on the bottle) though so it has the texture of PB before adding it to the recipe 🙂
-Jess

I decided to not use that PB. I have my batch in the oven right now. I don’t have any cookie cutters so I just make a square, sliced it with a pizza cutter like it was a sicilian pizza and put the whole thing, parchment paper and all, right on a quarter sheet and into the oven.

My dog loves these! I added some grated ginger which is supposed to be as good for them as it is for us humans. I used pie crust cut outs. They made the perfect small size. Thanks for the recipe! Can’t wait to explore your site some more! This is my first recipe of yours so far.

Jillian-
I didn’t count the exact number because the recipe made SO many. If you look at the glass jar in the picture though, that should give you an idea of how much… maybe 4-5 cups? Hope this helps! And I hope your pet loves the treats 😀
-Jess

I have a mccaw and I would like her and the various dogs we know to enjoy and they sound great for us to eat too! Throw in some grated carrots and they will be so thrilled! Might even share some with my avian vet 🙂

Jeane-
Oh cool! It’s so much fun meeting other parrot owners 🙂
We have an African Grey (Timneh) and a Yellow-Collared Macaw. They both loved getting treats! Adding some grated carrots is a great idea! Hope your bird likes them 😀
-Jess

I’m sure the dough would be great as a toy stuffing! Dogs LOOOOOVE peanut butter! I would just make sure that the toy is cleaned out properly if you’re using the dough rather than the baked treats, since baked treats keep longer than a raw dough. Hope your pup likes the treats! 🙂

Hi Cuddie! The mini bones get baked at 350 degrees F for ~15 minutes. These yield soft cookies, so if you want them crunchy you can try leaving them in for a few extra minutes. Hope you all like the treats! 🙂

I will have to try this treats for my dog, Trixie Belle (we’re southern). She is a white boxer mix we adopted from the dog shelter and I adore her! She had to get some new food because the beet powder in her old one was staining her eyes and she didn’t like it. She was a thin little thing. We got her a new food of the Acana brand which she loves. Every night with dinner she will get a scoop of canned pumpkin with it to complete the meal. Occasionaly she will get a spoonful of peanut butter which she makes a big show of eating. I know she will LOVE these treats. Thank you so much Desserts with Benefits and Jessica! I hope you family, your family’s dogs, and you are doing well!

I have 2 four legged kids, and can not wait to try these. One has a very special dietary meal plan. Hopefully this will be his go to snack. Love that you have included all our family pets include, after all they are our family.

Coconut flour is a really unique flour and can’t replace other flours or be replaced easily since it absorbs so much liquid. If anything almond flour might be able to be used here, but you’ll need a lot more of it or a lot less wet ingredients since it doesn’t absorb much liquid at all.

I haven’t tried replacing the oat flour with anything but I suppose you can try brown rice flour! You may need to use a little extra flour, or you can reduce the pumpkin by a tablespoon or so. Hope Koach loves the treats!!

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